Sit-in protest resumes as authorities deny protestors permission to visit a historic Buddhist temple which the locals suspect was damaged recently by explosives used when mining operations at the controversial copper mine site in Sagaing resumed.

Over 150 locals in central Burma’s Monywa staged another round of protests against the controversial China-backed Latpadaung copper mine on Wednesday after police and security guards began bulldozing their farms on the project site.

Religious minister pledges not to destroy a revered Buddhist site at the Latpadaung copper mine.

The recently imprisoned Burmese activist Naw Ohn Hla has been transferred to a new jail with better health care facilities, fuelling speculation that she has been refusing food.

Naw Ohn Hla was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with labour under a charge of sedition in a highly controversial trial in Monywa on Thursday.

Thailand-based Women’s League of Burma condemns the Monywa police department, saying it used excessive force during the arrest of 10 female activists protesting against the Latpadaung Copper Mine.